Background

​The Village of Maywood has been working with Cook County, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) for many years to address flooding and combined sewer basement backups. The Village currently relies on combined sewers that collect rainwater runoff, sewage and wastewater in the same pipes. When the area experiences heavy rains, combined sewers quickly reach their capacity and become overwhelmed, which can result in basement flooding.

Combined

Separated

​The Village is pleased to be receiving funding from a number of sources to address flooding issues in Phase 1 including:

• Cook County Community Development Block Grant Disaster Relief (CDBG-DR) funding for 100% of the cost of preliminary engineering.
• $3.5 million in construction funding from the Cook County CDBG-DR program.
• $4.0 million in additional sewer separation construction funding (with no requirement for Village matching funds), through the MWRD's Stormwater Partnership Program.

The storm sewer project will be coordinated with IDOT's I-290 Improvements and allow for the Village to connect to IDOT's proposed storm sewer. As part of the I-290 improvements, IDOT will construct a large diameter (66") storm sewer with outfall to the Des Plaines River in future years. The drainage benefit will be realized at that time.

Improvements

Current and future phases of improvements will focus on the areas bounded by:

• Harvard Street, Bataan Drive, 13th Avenue, 1st Avenue
• Harrison Street, Illinois Prairie Path, 21st Avenue and 1st Avenue

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​This grant will also fund the final design engineering of separate local storm sewer extensions in the Phase 1 area bounded by:

• Harrison Street, Illinois Prairie Path, 12th Avenue and 1st Avenue. 

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*Additional phases of storm sewer separation will occur upon funding availability, totaling $17.4 million in improvements.